*[http://ww2.goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.asp?contentid=302 Archippus the Apostles,Philemon the Apostle & his wife, Apphia, Onesimos the Disciple of Paul] ([[GOARCH]])

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*[http://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints_view?contentid=302 Archippus the Apostles,Philemon the Apostle & his wife, Apphia, Onesimos the Disciple of Paul] ([[GOARCH]])

*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=100035 Apostle Philemon of the Seventy: January 4] ([[OCA]])

*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=100035 Apostle Philemon of the Seventy: January 4] ([[OCA]])

*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=100558 Apostle Philemon the Martyr of the Seventy: February 19] (OCA)

*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=100558 Apostle Philemon the Martyr of the Seventy: February 19] (OCA)

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The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Philemon, bishop of Gaza, is numbered among the Seventy Apostles. The Church has included a letter he received from the Apostle Paul in the canon of Holy Scripture. His wife, Apphia, is also numbered among the Seventy, and they, with the Apostle Archippus, ministered to the town of Colossae from its Christian center, Philemon's home. During a pagan feast the Church had gathered in his home for prayer. When the pagans learned of it they raided the home and took Sts. Philemon, Apphia, and Archippus to be killed. They were whipped, buried up to their waists and then stoned. Sts. Philemon and Apphia gave up their souls to God. The Church remembers St. Philemon and his fellow martyrs on February 19 and November 22.